Improved roofing-composition for houses, boats, barns



H tion thereof.

the same, Iwill proceed to describe how and of what fl itifed fiance JAY J. W

weet-t e Emm t tties.

dated October 27, 1868.

mPROVEID ROOPING-COYMPOSITION FOR HOUSES, BOATS, BARBIE, 8:0. 7

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and part of the same. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AY J. WIGGIN, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented a new and improved Composition for the Roofing of Houses, Boats, Cars, 850.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descrip- The object of my invention is to provide a covering for the tops of houses-boats, cars, 850., which shall be cheap, durable, indestructible by fire, and impervious to water, and this object is secured by my composition, which I call my Egyptian Granite Roofing.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use ingredients my composition is made.

I mix together. onemeasure' or part of sand, two parts of clay, and on'part' of air-slaked lime, the slaking of the lime being completed only when it isput into the composition. Eight bushels of this mixture and one barrel of coal-tar, or gas-tar, are then added.

together, and boiled for six hours, after which I add one more gallon of gas-tar, which will give the compositionothe elasticity requisite for expansions and contractions caused by heat and cold, and then it is ready for running into sheets, and being rolled into rolls.

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What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The compound made of the ingredients before described, in the proportions above set forth, substantially as and for the purpose described.

'JAY J. W'IGGIN. I

Witnesses: I

Emu. F. BROWN, A. M. S'rou'r. 

